When looking for something to read, either for myself or a recommendation for someone else, I usually look for something old. The older the better. In fact, aside from questions of historical significance the test of time is the surest quality filter I’m aware of. That said, I’m quite comfortable ignoring the New York Times…

In his 1957 book Germany’s New Conservatism, the German expat-cum-American scholar Klemens von Klemperer makes the case that, during the days of Weimar, “strong Nietzscheans” dominated the revolutionary Right. Such thinkers as Oswald Spengler, Edgar Julius Jung, and Arthur Moeller van den Bruck formed what was then known as “neo-conservatism,” a term that in American…